Business WIFI Planning and Deployment
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@tim_g said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
@scottalanmiller said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
@tim_g said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Just curious why nobody likes or recommends Mikrotiks?
Is there a model that you would recommend?
No, I don't work with networking equipment enough. I just know that (through experience) UBNT APs are the bees knees, and that MikroTik Switches seem to work well. Not so sure about the hAPs yet.
I think that that is the core problem, that not a lot of people have used them and don't know how they compare.
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It looks like they require a license for their OS?
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@coliver said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
It looks like they require a license for their OS?
MikroTic?
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@scottalanmiller said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
@coliver said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
It looks like they require a license for their OS?
MikroTic?
Yes.
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@coliver said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
@scottalanmiller said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
@coliver said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
It looks like they require a license for their OS?
MikroTic?
Yes.
No not at all. They use RouterOS and is pretty nice.
The hAPs seem to be working well.
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@scottalanmiller said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
@coliver said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
It looks like they require a license for their OS?
MikroTic?
No, MikroTik. https://mikrotik.com/
I do not use them anywhere, but only because I think UBNT is over all better.
They are my second recommendation after UBNT.
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Have anyone ever used Aruba http://www.arubanetworks.com/?
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@black3dynamite said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Have anyone ever used Aruba http://www.arubanetworks.com/?
No, because HPE bought them to milk.
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@black3dynamite said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Have anyone ever used Aruba http://www.arubanetworks.com/?
we have aruba stuff at work.
switches are ok, no problem nice stuff.
APs are also great, I really like the virtual controlled embedded in APs and set inHA by default (the virtual controller dies? it its respawn on another AP).
main issue you must find a tech which is able to tune the load balancing... we are still struggling at it...
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@tim_g said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Just curious why nobody likes or recommends Mikrotiks?
our ISP uses mikrotik grear. we have radio backup un mikrotik antennas.
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@tim_g if you look at the mikrotik switch offering it is quite limited wrt Ubiquiti
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I purchased the access points... Do I need a "Cloud Key"?
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@ccwtech No, most of us spin up a virtual machine and install the controller on it.
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Ok, so it's software (and not hardware?)
Can it be installed on an existing server?
I have two virtual servers 1 DC/DHCP/DNS and 1 is Applications server.
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@ccwtech said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
I purchased the access points... Do I need a "Cloud Key"?
For the cost of a cloud key, you can have a Vultr VPS running for well over a year.
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@ccwtech said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Ok, so it's software (and not hardware?)
Can it be installed on an existing server?
I have two virtual servers 1 DC/DHCP/DNS and 1 is Applications server.
If you have additional storage space ( say 30 GB) and some RAM/CPU left over, you can spin up another Linux VM for free on your virtual platform and install it there.
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@dashrender Any particular 'flavor' of linux?
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@ccwtech Debian or Ubuntu is what is supported.
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If I don't want to go the VM option, is this the only other thing that I need? The router is Meraki and the switches are Netgear.
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@ccwtech It is a waste of money...
Here is a how to @JaredBusch put together on setting up the controller on Debian
https://mangolassi.it/topic/14601/how-to-install-the-ubiquiti-unifi-controller-on-debian-9-1
